"Sometimes a person has to go a very long distance out of his way to come back a short distance correctly."

"I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humour."

"You gotta have a swine to show you where the truffles are."

"One must let the play happen to one; one must let the mind loose to respond as it will, to receive impressions, to se…"

"I'm not suggesting that the play is without fault; all of my plays are imperfect, I'm rather happy to say — it leaves…"

"Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it. A good writer turns fact into truth; a bad writer will, more…"

"A play is fiction — and fiction is fact distilled into truth."

"Your source material is the people you know, not those you don't know, [but] every character is an extension of the a…"

"What people really want in the theater is fantasy involvement and not reality involvement."

"What I wanted to get at is the value difference between pornographic playing-cards when you're a kid, and pornographi…"